File 1 - Correspondence

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Correspondence authored, received, and/or compiled by Kevin Boyle, Aisling Reidy, and Françoise Hampson pertaining to the İkincisoy case. The correspondence is with the European Commission of Human Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Kurdish Human Rights Project. Notable items within this correspondence accessible to the public include: Abdurrazak and Halil İkincisoy's letters to the Commission authorising Kevin Boyle and Françoise Hampson as their legal representatives; Kevin Boyle's letter of 19 May 1994 introducing the application; letters which accompanied documents and observations submitted on behalf of the applicants; requests on behalf of the applicant for extensions of document submission deadlines; correspondence regarding intimidation of Abdurrazak İkincisoy by the Diyarbakır public prosecutor, who forced Abdurrazak to sign a statement on 6 June 1995 retracting his application to the Commission and who was later questioned again by the prosecutor during June 1999; Abdurrazak İkincisoy's statement of 31 October 1995 refuting the statement of 6 June 1995 and stating his and his son's wishes to continue pursuing the application; correspondence pertaining to the 28 June-2 July case hearing in Ankara including lists of proposed witnesses and the applicants’ declarations of means submitted on 8 June 1999; Aisling Reidy’s background file on the case prepared 22 May 1999; and the Court’s letter of 25 November 1999 informing that it has now taken over examination of the application.

Correspondence and associated materials within the file that were created by either the European Commission of Human Rights or the Government of Turkey are not permitted to be accessed until 1 November 2073.

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